corporation

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From Late Latin corporatio (assumption of a body), from Latin coporare, past participle corporatus (to form into a body); see corporate.

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corporation (plural corporations)

  1. A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
  2. In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
  3. (slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.
    • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:
      'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation.'
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 316:
      He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.

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